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Ronald Raygun replied Jul 20, 2009Get better data. Those are data-related problems (specifically, the volume across different timeframes doesn't add up).
4H Box Breakout
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Ronald Raygun replied Jul 20, 2009I'll host it. Can I get a copy of that page's source?
EA programming
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Ronald Raygun replied Jul 20, 2009The easy answer is that it cannot find the range. I'm not entirely sure why. The way the range-finding code works is pretty simple in itself. 1) Check the day of the current bar, and of the previous bar. 2) If the current bar's day is different from ...
4H Box Breakout
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Ronald Raygun replied Jul 20, 2009Which EA? No lines means the EA is still in "range-finding" mode, which means that the range is still being established. I'm guessing it never could find the range as there was no trade, or trade attempt, right?
4H Box Breakout
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Ronald Raygun replied Jul 20, 2009Set the lot size to anything other than 0, and run a backtest. Does it work? (I'm writing the code in notepad, so I'm sure there are errors).
4H Box Breakout
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Ronald Raygun replied Jul 20, 2009Added max# of trades in 1 week (counting trades from the day you use as your "start day") extern int MaxTradesPerWeek = 10; The maximum amount of trades allowed in one week, starting from the day defined in the "StartDay" variable. extern int ...
4H Box Breakout
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Ronald Raygun replied Jul 20, 2009Well, you are learning a programming language the problem--at least for me--is that I don't have much trouble listening and speaking in a foreign language, but reading and writing is an entirely different story.
EA programming
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Ronald Raygun replied Jul 19, 2009rategain data is full of holes yes, I agree. But the more recent the data is, the fewer holes there are. As for generating a tick collection solution, I was thinking of setting up a website somewhere which allows FF users to upload ticks from their ...
Historical Data
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Ronald Raygun replied Jul 19, 2009Oops!
You most likely are right, and that's generally how I speed up programming.4H Box Breakout
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Ronald Raygun replied Jul 19, 2009To get to the other side of the box, set the multiplier to 1.
4H Box Breakout
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Ronald Raygun replied Jul 19, 2009Plenty of interesting goings-on at RBS, details to follow.
2009.03.11 15:41:15Tester memory handler: tester stopped because not enough memory
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Ronald Raygun replied Jul 19, 2009There isn't a separate window. The reason is pretty simple, how would you know which price to reference?
Dynamic colors?
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Ronald Raygun replied Jul 18, 2009Yes, I designed this to work on any chart. Just keep in mind that you need to change the settings to get the EA to think it is on a 4HR chart.
4H Box Breakout
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Ronald Raygun replied Jul 18, 2009extern string Remark1 = "== Main Settings =="; extern int MagicNumber = 0; The identifying number assigned to trades. Make sure that each EA has a unique Magicnumber extern bool SignalsOnly = False; If set to true, the EA will not place any trades, ...
4H Box Breakout
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Ronald Raygun replied Jul 18, 2009This looks to be well documented. As for MM, I suggest you borrow from Ace's 4H breakout system. TP is a multiple of SL
0400-0700 GMT Breakout Strategy
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Ronald Raygun replied Jul 18, 2009The iHighest/iLowest functions give the SHIFT of the highest/lowest point. See revision... for (int i = 0; i < Total; i ++) { OrderSelect(i, SELECT_BY_POS, MODE_TRADES); if (OrderMagicNumber() == MagicNumber) if(OrderType() <= OP_SELL && ...
Exiting Trades on iLowest and iHighest
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Ronald Raygun replied Jul 17, 2009This is a good exit strategy for a smooth trend. How do you account for retracements?
Well working exit strategy
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Ronald Raygun replied Jul 17, 2009The first trade of the week is as designated by the original system. (Breakout of the 4Hr bar) For every additional trade... When the previous trade hits the stoploss, and keeps going x amount of pips, two pending orders appear. One order is in the ...
4H Box Breakout
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Ronald Raygun replied Jul 17, 2009Given a few technical difficulties, I'll just post the EA here. There are two new editions: 4H Weekly Box Breakout is exactly the same as the EA posted by me awhile ago with the addition of being able to set the TP/SL as a multiplier of the range. ...
4H Box Breakout